Real Life Monsters


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serial killers
dont they call those "Adventurers"

I just learnt that even without wind spiders can use websilk to fly via manipulating the earths electromagnetic field - actual lightning Spiders!

As if these webs werent enough!
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I imagine a lot of stuff found in AUS would qualify. Huntsman spiders, while not dangerous, are scary; esp. if you find one who managed to conceal itself behind the giant shampoo bottles in your shower caddy!

Emus caused all kinds of havoc to people in the 19th century according to newspaper accounts; they even fought a war against them.
 




I was reading about a fungus that afflicts silk worms, cordyceps militaris. It infects the host and secretes an enzyme that converts the trehalose from leafy goodness the worm eats, into glucose, which the caterpillar cannot process, but the fungus can. The fungus corrupts the creature's metabolism to work for the colony. The caterpillar releases hunger inducing hormones and induces hyperphagia, forcing it into a feeding frenzy. Even though the caterpillar eats and eats, it stays a very hungry caterpillar while the fungus grows within its host.
Last of Us shows what can happens when you apply this to a human. Imagine a whole village as a fungal colony, filled with starving people surrounded by food and still starving. Maybe Wendigo Psychosis when the food runs out.
 
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